Conrad Schneiker wrote:

> Conrad Schneiker wrote:
>
> > Dave Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > Try renaming he cygwin1.dll that came with the cygnus tools, so that
> > > both bash and Ruby use Ruby's version.
> >
> > Hmm. I thought I had tried that already yesterday on my other NT machine
> > without success.
>
> Well, I just tried this again on the other NT machine again and it worked
> too. (However it has since been rebooted again, so that may have had some
> effect; maybe I missed a reboot after one of the path changes or
> something.)
>
> And restoring the registry (on the NT machine that had the strange
> tooltips death after every login) fixed the problem. Due to an approaching
> storm, I didn't get a chance to reinstall Ruby again to see whether this
> (plus wanting to reboot after getting the installer but before doing the
> Ruby installation) could be anything more than just a bizarre coincidence.

After reinstalling Ruby, this error once more started occurring just after
login:

  MSTips Engine Services: tips.exe - Application Error

  The instructions at ... referenced memory at "0x00000000" The memory could
not
  be "written".

Before reinstalling Ruby, I saved (exported) a copy of the Registry with
regedit. (I forgot to do this last time, and it tool almost an hour to
restore it from a backup tape using NT's backup/restore application.)

So when I tried to restore (import) the previous copy of the Registry this
time, I got the following totally bogus error message:

  System Process - License Violation

  The system has detected tampering with your registered product type. This
is a
  violation of your software license. Tampering with product type is not
  permitted.

I don't know what to make of this--I've never seen such installation side
effects before, and I've never seen regedit choke on its own input before. I
guess this is the sort of thing that helps generates the great numbers of
Windows-haters in the world, and I guess I've just been unusually lucky up
to now.

Conrad